{"id":3524,"date":"2025-10-16T13:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/planet-y-could-be-hiding-in-solar-system\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:05:30","slug":"planet-y-could-be-hiding-in-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/planet-y-could-be-hiding-in-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Y could be hiding in solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-16 13:05:29<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Planet Y could be hidden in our solar system.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers from Princeton University say the new finding could rewrite astronomy textbooks and expand the number of recognised planets beyond the current eight.<BR><br \/>\nThe possible planet was detected indirectly after astronomers noticed that around 50 icy objects in the Kuiper Belt \u2014 a region beyond Neptune filled with asteroids and dwarf planets \u2014 were tilted at an unusual angle.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Amir Siraj, the study\u2019s lead author, said: &#8220;We started trying to come up with explanations other than a planet that could explain the tilt, but what we found is that you actually need a planet there.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This paper is not a discovery of a planet. But it\u2019s certainly the discovery of a puzzle for which a planet is a likely solution.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nIf Planet Y exists, scientists say it would be a rocky world with a mass between that of Earth and Mercury, orbiting 100 to 200 times farther from the Sun than our own planet \u2014 making it far too dim to spot with current telescopes.<BR><br \/>\nThe theory does not rule out the existence of Planet X &#8211; another hypothesised, much larger gas giant thought to orbit about 400 times farther from the Sun. Together, the two theories suggest our solar system could host up to 10 planets, not eight.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, some astronomers remain sceptical. <BR><br \/>\nDr. Samantha Lawler, of the University of Regina in Canada, said the findings were \u201cnot definitive,\u201d adding that observational evidence is needed before any conclusions can be drawn.<BR><br \/>\nThat proof could come soon. The Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, which began operations this year, will photograph the entire sky every 40 seconds for up to 12 hours a night.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Siraj said: &#8220;I think within the first two to three years, it\u2019ll become definitive. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;If Planet Y is in the field of view of the telescope, it will be able to find it directly.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-16 13:05:29 Planet Y could be hidden in our solar system. Researchers from Princeton University say the new finding could rewrite astronomy textbooks and expand the number of recognised planets&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}